Photo from his book "Adventures in Power" Book One: My march through prison; Macmillan Nigeria Publishers
The book is dedicated to all those who stood by him and his wife through their trials and tribulations from 1962 - 1966

Chief Awolowo

geez what happened to nigeria?




A 1973 picture of one of the roads leading to Ibadan.

tpia@:

geez what happened to nigeria?




A 1973 picture of one of the roads leading to Ibadan.

More people with cars?

the Queen's College Yaba Class of 1965 -

Nice pictures. Well done to Proudly9ja and Ezeuche. Is that Ozumba Mbadiwe standing behind the sitting white gentleman in the photo of post #41?


Anyways, I wish it worked out for us as a country with strong unified ethnic groups. Rather sad it didn't.  

UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION CARD.1964

"No money should be paid for this card"

^^
Thats REAL FREE education. Not what we have now where tuition is free but one has to pay over 100k for miscellaneous

1966 Pioneer Class 2 of UNILAG Staff School. The School was started to absorb those of us who were affected by the closure of Corona school Yaba, which was then in the compound of the Myhoung Barracks, Military Hospital. With the declaration of War on Biafra in 1966, the Army took back the Buildings it had given to the School

'Being a Nigerian is abysmally frustrating and unbelievably exciting': Chinua Achebe in 1967. Photograph: Michael Neal

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From left: Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo with Chinua Achebe and Alex Ajayi. Photo/FILE |

THE SWEET PERFUME IN A STICK (1972)
Ad for Odorono deodorant stick


We made our own perfumes.

Rufus Ogundele from the catalogue "Oshogbo - Harvest from the Land of Culture", issued by Goethe Institut, Lagos, 2000

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Left: Major Muhammadu Buhari, Middle: Col. D. Bamigboye. Inspecting the front during the civil war. 1969

2nd from Left: Col. D. Bamigboye, 3rd from right: Major Muhammadu Buhari (standing akimbo). Inspecting the front during the civil war. 1969

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Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu

Ileke-IdI:

UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION CARD.1964

"No money should be paid for this card"

only if he was the president

Biafran Soldier

Famous Nigerian painter and drummer, Chief Muraina Oyelami at an early point of his career at a reception at Goethe Institute, Lagos, then Broad Street. We were in the company of German Embassy officials, discussing the impending show of the
German jazz group “The Barrelhouse Jazzband” early Seventies.

Company of Biafran soldiers leave their positions to advance on a Nigerian position 100 yards away during the Aba offensive, Aug. 1968.

Igwe Isaac Iweka (B.Eng Imperial College) one of the first Igbo Engineers, standing is his brother Dr Jonas Iweka, one of the first Igbo Medical Doctor's. This photograph was taken at the Iwaji (New Yam) Festival at the Igwe's palace- c.1976

Ondo, Nigeria 1976.

Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu at Nigerian-Biafran peace talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where the Emperor Haile Selassie is chairman of the committte Aug 5 1968.

Northern soldiers attacking Igbos in Northern Nigeria. circa 1966.

Mother Africa by Felix Idubor - it is Emotan
easily recognizable that it stands in front of the National Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos

Federal Nigerian police push back crowds of demonstrators outside the French Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, Sept. 16, 1968 - They were demonstrating against French assistance to Biafra.

Major General Yakubu Gowon at Dodan barracks, stands before a map of Nigeria as he tells reporters at a press conference that the war will be over in 4-8 weeks - Sept 13 1968.

This is a pre-independence ID card used by the Nigerian contingent of the Commonwealth force hitherto known as Royal Nigerian Army.
The holder of same as pictured on the overleaf hails from Umuahia south local government area of Abia state. He was educated at the Royal School of Signal Yorkshire-UK and subsequently saw action in Congo, the former Tanganyika and as a military attaché in Cameroon. He rose to the rank of Sergeant in the Nigerian Army prior to the civil war; he switched sides in the course of the civil war in order to exercise the right to self determination. At the end of the Biafran/Nigerian military campaign and cessation of hostilities, he got re- integrated into civil life and is presently pensioned and in his late 70s.

New head of state Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu in Enugu shortly after the declaration of independence and formation of the new state of Biafra, June 10 1967 takes the oath of office.

16 Dec 1959, Lagos, Nigeria --- Cheer election results. Lagos, Nigeria: A forest of waving arms is created as a crowd applauds election results posted at the Lagos racetrack during the Nigerian general election. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was reappointed Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria, which will achieve independence from Great Britain next Oct. 1st. Abubakar's party, the Northern people's congress, emerged from the election with the largest number of seats in the New House of Representatives. Abubakar said that Nigeria would remain within the British Commonwealth after Oct. 1st, adding that he favored closer ties with Britain and the United States. He expressed hope that the United States would provide economic aid.

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OGUNDE AND HIS WIVES (1969)
Theatre don Chief Hubert Ogunde and eight of his twelve wives in London during a tour of Britain with his Ogunde Dancers group.